It wasn’t until she was 19 – and had dated a guy in secondary school – that Ella Wright realised who she really was.

“I realised I was queer and had never really been interested in men,” says Wright, now 26 and a teacher. “I was like, ‘that makes sense’, I have had crushes on women through my life.”

It was another five years before she had a same-sex romantic relationship. “And in that five years, I feel like I did fully come to understand it [not being heterosexual],” says Wright, who is at the older end of Generation Z.

Among the younger Generation Z students she teaches, Wright has noticed the time-lapse she experienced while recognising and growing into her identity is often much smaller, or non-existent.

With greater acceptance, visibility and awareness of queerness – and online c

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